shelling and airstrikes wreak havoc across gaza for a sixth straight day as israel decrees the terror treat fair game. medics say a quarter of fatalities have been children. and israel could be just hours away from a gaza ground invasion having issued hamas with a six point zero to make them in order to avert a land war also. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you so you know what you believe that we don't have freedom of speech and the. brits fight for their right to protest as a public order to outlaw even the most harmless of insults regardless of whether anyone is actually offended. and foreign ministers vote to endorse the coalition of

syrian rebels as the only legitimate voice of the people paving the way for providing military and financial assistance to be fragmented revolutionaries. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day israel continues to show of gaza with rockets from both air and sea with the number killed in the strikes almost doubling within the past day the palestinian death toll reportedly exceeds one hundred around half of them civilians including women and children journalist terry fear who's inside gaza tells us what he's witnessed so far. the building which roughly translates as the shut sunshine tower is home to various media organizations and i.c.t. organizations here in the gaza strip it's known as such as one of the two most

principal buildings for this respect it was hit at the weekend already once and has been hit a second time two palestinians were killed in that strike we're hearing too many incidents of collateral damage we've heard of the total destruction of the palestine stadium israel which is a football stadium here in central gaza city we also heard of israel targeting the ministry of youth another child has been killed so the collateral damage toll is going up steadily the hospitals here in the medical professors except for the ministry of health is saying that eighty percent more than eighty percent of those being arrived injured to the hospitals here are civilians the overwhelming majority of those women and children and what is striking here in gaza is that the number of innocents being killed particularly children and women is of such a high proportion i mean talking to some of these terrorized gazan residents my head of we were safely sitting inside our houses and all of

a sudden rockets and bombs fell upon us from everywhere children woman an old man with terrified the picture says it all you can see the destruction we tell the whole world no place to save hearing gaza our house is a target our playgrounds a target the situation is horrific. yesterday just after midnight something unimaginable happened i always saw windows glass and shells flying here and there the houses around were destroyed and the sole target of the house identical to this one followed by the destruction of ten other homes what for i don't understand that house is empty there is no one living there and they know that. but you know the injured arriving in all of the hospitals around the gaza strip as airstrikes are flecked in all of the gaza strip all of the usual places that have been hit over the last few days the situation is very critical in these last moments. as the civilian death toll mounts so does criticism of israel for

what many see as a disproportionate response were earlier i spoke to paul herschel foreign ministry spokesperson who says israel does its best to prevent the killing of innocents war is a risky business it's a messy business it's something that we didn't want to be and. we were dragged into this i think you can see by the response of the international community the democratic world first and foremost which is saying very clearly israel has the right to defend itself is really only is operating in a way which is taking every possible step to avoid civilian casualties how do you account for the also save the children charity i want to get here save the children charity they are saying families are running out of food and water eighteen hours of power cuts are making matters worse you are in effect targeting an entire population only. no absolutely not hamas is essentially a synonym for for

a double war crime they deliberately target our civilians while at the same time with an element of pride hiding behind their own civilians we hope that we don't have to take this to the next step to the step of a ground operation but it's a very real possibility if some us were to stand up right now and say ok they will desist from what they've been doing for some years now and in particular over the last few weeks which is lobbing indiscriminately missiles and rockets into our civilian populations and if they will this is for a very very long time then there is no need to pursue this. israel's war it's hours not days before it intensifies attacks on gaza the state issued a thirty six hour ultimatum demanding that the mass stop firing rockets into israeli territory. has more now from tel aviv. international community is warning tel aviv against launching any kind of ground offensive although the latest word from the israeli government is

a thirty six hour truce in terms of which it says this is the deadline for hamas to come to the party and if it doesn't it is going to go ahead with a ground operation now on monday the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon was in cairo meeting with egyptian leadership to try and hammer out the details of a cease fire he will on tuesday be introducing a meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahu as well as in ramallah where he'll meet with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and the information we have we're being told that a cease fire is not far away but we have no more information than that at this stage the israelis put forward six conditions by which they say they will agree to such a truce and these conditions include a lull in fighting for fifteen years for hamas and other militants to stop firing into israel for there to be a cessation in terms of weapons being smuggled into the gaza strip and for israeli soldiers no longer to be targeted although it is always insisting that it would take the right to follow and if necessary kill militants if it has information that

they're about to carry out attacks against the jewish state is also once the border between gaza and egypt to remain open while insisting that the border between gaza and israel remain closed in the last year once egypt to be the guarantors of any kind of peace treaty between both sides now turkey has come out and accused israel of being a terrorist state that carries out deliberate killings on muslim people are we witnessing a lot of wall mongering amongst these radiator ship. who is one of the sons of a former israeli prime minister ariel sharon went on record as saying that gaza needed to be flattened like a machine but we're hearing from other israeli parliamentarians who've said things like all palestinians need to be mowed down but there are no innocents in gaza there's a school of thought that also believes that because the gaza. everybody in gaza is potentially a tall good for the israeli army these really transport minister went so far as to

say that gaza needs to be bombed to be extended if we build the fees from gaza into egypt sinai peninsula not in an interesting sign development of all palestinian faction groups. have put aside their differences and come together in a really show of unity saying that they stand together in solidarity against these radio pollution. from the palestinian center for human rights was a ground invasion is a terrifying prospect for those who remember the israeli offensive four years ago. there is widespread fear among the pa among the people here the prospect of a ground invasion is really very frightening for people because it's inevitable that the casualties will rapidly. and people here are still traumatized by the memory of operation cast lead which happened less than four years ago in which more than eleven hundred civilians lost their lives many many more were injured humanitarian crisis is imminent in relation to the hospitals and the supplies that

they have i visited as chief of hospital stay with. this current escalation and spoke with the director general of the hospital there and he advised me that they. are sorry. sorry we're just interrupted there on an ongoing basis. that. they are always. regular medical supplies but now because the situation has worsened their lack of lacking in such basic supplies as antibiotics i.v. fluids. very basic medical supplies that they require in order to keep this work. looking after the palestinian people who are being same continually injuries and severely wounded so this situation is very grim in relation to the hospitals. hamas has agreed to you know with rival palestinian polity factor in the face of the escalating is ready threat that's amid growing skepticism over the possibility of

achieving. in the region. i think it's extremely likely that if a ceasefire is reached right now and the terms are the kind that have been discussed so frequently which is essentially. the same kind of ceasefire that has been brokered repeatedly in the last couple of years. then that of course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly as israel pounds gaza with air strikes in the occupied territories palestinian protesters clashed with israeli police israeli authorities are fun to gas the demonstrators in various spots across the west bank in the village of the mosque was heavily damaged in a fine an edge of the started by jewish settlers and in ramallah crowds marched to support fellow palestinians in gaza. the latest israeli palestinian violence has

also led to protests across the world activists and demonstrators in the country of rugged deprived of that and demand an immediate end to the fighting. russia pledges to raise the latest offensive at the u.n. . mission a positive reaction on going coverage of the situation both in israel and gaza on the web site right now. when it comes to speaking their minds the british are finding it harder than ever to voice their opinions the campaign to overturn a stifling public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people their basic rights of free speech reports. brits are renowned for their sarcastic sense of humor and here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and

we be able to sell our opinions from the very top right wrong there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you saying what you believe it we don't have freedom of speech anymore and one piece of blue in particular is is she section five of the public order act one of the close that's causing big problems was a slower has been used for two particular ways firstly to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam against christianity which are against the quality of homosexuals so people who say that sort of stuff can be arrested the second way it's been used by the police. to arrest you if everything else fails they see being called house includes someone who insulted scientology by calling it a dangerous cult and wait for it someone who called the police. under

section five of the public order there's no requirement to praise that the person intended any negative consequences from something they said are dead and only has to be likely to have caused offense so i could be prosecuted for saying or doing something even if no one was actually offended but the who's probably got a very pretty quickly these on the receiving end of this law have had to live with the consequences to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out as appeal not before costing the taxpayer a pretty penny i've been a victim to when i protested against islamist extremists who were advocating killing gay people and women have sex outside of marriage i was prosecuted for this alleged crime. really in a free society insults are not nice but they shouldn't be criminal offenses when it comes to defending free speech many feel what we're actually talking about is protecting our right to a phone. the essence of democracy your sense of democracy some people wandering around saying flopsy bunnies for bunnies and smiling at one another it's about

informed debate about a whole range of issues and nothing should be off limits increasingly dissolve cases where the section five bills being eased have led to a huge public outcry and a campaign to get the little changed. whether it has people or it insults people's speech must be free is the fact that so many people in this country believe that that we think that's a fair fight defending our right to say whatever we want whenever the we want. to say. well i'll be back with more news when a couple of minutes from now the zante live here in moscow. texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just

a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do to sign a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave us a little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are gov has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tour a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line to see you should really understand what that means and what you're in for the founding father sure did but that's just my opinion.

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party life here in moscow the newly formed syrian opposition coalition has won the endorsement of the european union which hailed it as the legitimate representative of the people of syria that is the group struggles to prove its credibility at home and rally the country's main factions let's discuss this development now with dr ali mohammed editor in chief of the syria tribune well now that we have a united opposition recognized by the e.u. will syria's rebels march under one flag one leadership. but if i were in a position to go i wouldn't be very optimistic. yesterday and that would drive through france and turkey to provide the coalition as the leader of the arms around sort of the syrian people the final groups and their leaders the they released a video saying that this coalition that monitors out there have been that they thought they were to keep writing up. they reach their goal which is an islamic

state in syria. the. rebel leaders in which is the the main battle going on so i don't think that they will they would be able to control the rebels on the ground and therefore we can offer hope the rebels marching under one flag but wouldn't perhaps the action of a radical faction within that coalition be a good thing after all what the west wants to do is support a moderate coalition so the exit of that radical group surely would be positive. well the negative political is always positive but the problem is that those radicals are the ones receiving weapons money and means of communication in the course so if they are to exit who knows with five. groups fighting on the ground who is fighting it's all the very cause and very very small groups of so for workers who are forced to be radical to be accepted within the rebel groups so i don't really see it this way so this is really a sign that the coalition already is in trouble it's already fragile and there

isn't as much cohesion as perhaps the west would want. absolutely it's actually a very tricky sign because the muslim brotherhood is an important member of the coalition and of the same time the muslim brotherhood is the main backer and supporter of the unity brigade that fights in the same brigade that protected the coalition so there is something of that and out there it's really. not clear but it's not a good sign for the coalition at all so therefore could you perhaps say that there is a similarity to what we saw in libya with the libya the libyan national council that obviously was recognized by the west but again it was fairly fragile it didn't have cohesion and people weren't aware of exactly who they were supporting amongst rebel groups. exactly the in libya of the form.

of all coalition and they called it the national council and they gave everything they create the west give everything to great discipline this coalition until they won the battle and after that if people suffered because of the and stability and all the war crimes that were committed not to give them it was thrown out so this is the same thing that's happening in syria we don't know this they don't control anything on the ground and you know the west wanted to be the sort of preserve the us but we could are doing exams you could argue that supporting the libyan national council did lead to the toppling of gadhafi so you may say well recognizing the syrian coalition could do the same and lead to the toppling of a sad. as that is the main goal of the syrian people the main goal of the syrian people is a new syria emerging from this crisis stronger a stronger syria more stable syria more democratic syria and this is not this is the. south if you topple assad and get worse regime what's the point here you need

to build a new one syria just threw in the old one well nevertheless despite those concerns about the void after assad goes italy and france they both recognize a coalition of the e.u. nations predicted to follow does this mean that the arms flow will really start to officially flow into syria and tip the balance in the opposition's favor could this be the beginning of the end of the assad regime just briefly. was the here and now and with this did not change anything and making it official will make it harder for the syrian people in this year an army. that will change the balance of power on the ground dr ali mohamed always interesting to hear what you have to say thank you very much indeed editor in chief of the syria tribune there in dubai thank you. thank you. it seems that in some parts of america obama supporters on considered responsible enough to own firearms at least that's the opinion of one gun shop owner not resign or banned or democrat voters from

entering his stall. and find out about that on line and an unexpected discovery in scotland as construction workers in the north korean storage house shedding light on the lives of the very first settlers head to the website for more details on that offer people. three crew members from the international space station has successfully returned to earth after spending four months in space on the show and thomas has this report . i can't say that i'm a zero five m. has landed safely and it has brought with it the s.s. expedition thirty three crew with them sunny williams from the usa. from japan and yuri malenchenko from russia now you know making it from space to earth is an exact

science but it's never routine in fact let me tell you a little bit about what happened the undocked about two thousand and six moscow time fire the rockets at four fifty eight which brought in nearly just under an hour long process of fall to the earth through the atmosphere from about sixty three miles in the earth's surface in a rare pre-dawn in the dark landing in the. stone step where it's extremely cold and there was snow on the ground and that landing happened at about five fifty three moscow time now what happens is when that capsule hits the ground it launches a series of ground vehicles about twelve helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft that go looking for the crew they have now been recovered and are safely back and earth after one hundred twenty seven days in space well in space they did educational as well as scientific and medical experiments they even did maintenance

on what is space aquarium with actual fish in space and they docked with a commercial spacecraft as well as performed at three different spacewalks so never a dull moment always something to do up there in space at the international space station. some other world news now in the european union has agreed to back the recently formed syrian opposition coalition as legitimate representative of the people as we've just been discussing here in r.t. . also hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the kenyan capital blast killed at least seven people and wounded dozens the bomb was detonated in a predominantly somali neighborhood of nairobi the crowds are outrageous cause for suspicion that the explosion was the work of supporters of an islamic group linked to al qaida has been hit by a series of recent terror attacks and in the last few weeks often blamed militia sympathizers. barack obama has attended a meeting of the association of southeast asian nations in cambodia. during his

last leg of his in asia during his visit he also urged the cambodian leader to improve his country's human rights record and earlier he became the first serving u.s. president to visit. praising political reforms there but insisting the country still has much further to go experts suggest is part of america's attempts to counterbalance china's influence in the region. the colby's government has rejected a rebel ultimatum to start direct talks within twenty four hours the militant group is demanding that the eastern city of goma be militarized otherwise threatening to take it by. on the outskirts of the city despite efforts by un peacekeepers and government troops to halt their progress and official spokesperson has accused neighboring rwanda of supporting the rebels meanwhile civilians have joined government forces the international community voices deep concern about the fighting. so

well that brings you up to date for the moment now time to turn to business he's joining me here in the studio well you certainly had a busy year then concerning b.p. be reporting on that they've had a busy year so what is the latest concerning b.p. well it's definitely been tumultuous of course there's been a roller coaster of it we had last week the four point five billion dollars compensation payouts after the gulf of mexico spill that happened and now at the moment they're just really trying to gather some cash together bell so clearly not keen to leave their dealings in russia no that's right because they are going to be doing this multibillion dollar. buybacks and more details coming up in the business bulletin in just a few minutes time stay with us for that thanks kate. the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the

snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also looks. at how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously a challenge where they saw it lags they still attracting a region tourists are barons work i would then commerce much needed cash that's why when. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to pay the bill you and the barons work central square that can do nine hundred eighty s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe the bergen

archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. picture of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious interested i think it could be even more appealing for russians trying. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local shops so we claim or bill it is a big hit the defunct arn curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian you know what you can put in robles. to grow your.